Michel C. Desmarais

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Contact information Professor, Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal Office: M4111 (Pavillon Lassonde, building 2 on map) Mailing address: C.P. 6079, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal Québec, Canada, H3C 3A7 Phone: 514-340-4711 x3914 Fax: 514-340-3240 E-mail: michel.desmarais @ polymtl. ca Web site: www.professeurs.polymtl.ca/michel.desmarais/desmarais_michel_c.html (this page)

Short Bio

Michel Desmarais is professor at the Computer and Software Engineering Department of Polytechnique Montreal since 2002. His fields of expertise are Artificial Intelligence, Human Computer Interfaces, and Cognitive modeling. After his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Montreal, he spent ten years at the Montreal Computer Research Institute (CRIM) as scientific lead of a research team. He later held management and R&D positions in a private firm specialized in the development of Web applications. He was editor of the Journal of Educational Data Mining from 2013 to 2017 and is highly involved in the Educational Data Mining and User Modeling communities.

Research interest

• Student and user modeling
• User-centered software engineering
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Probabilistic modeling
• Recommender interfaces

Publications

• List of publications
• Google Scholar

Courses

• Design and Programming of User Interfaces (LOG2420)
• Software Project Management (INF3300)
• Intelligent Interfaces (LOG6304)
• Recommender Systems (LOG6308)

Students

Current

• Pingao Wang (Ph.D., Nguyen Dang, co-supervisor, U. of Montreal, Neurosciences)
• Ovide Bertrand Kuichua Kamdem (Ph.D., co-supervisor Chahé Nerguizian, Poly, Electrical Enginnering)

• Anis Redjdal (M.Sc.)
• Ines Goddi (M.Sc.)
• Yosra Chouchane (M.Sc.)

Graduated

• Arghavan Moradidakhel, 2023 (Ph.D., Foutse Khom, co-supervisor)
• Wenhui Peng, 2023 (Ph.D., Éric Laurendeau, co-supervisor)
• Asana Neishabouri, 2021 (Ph.D.)
• Sameer Bhatnagar, 2021 (Ph.D.)
• Boniface Mbouzao, 2020 (Ph.D.)
• Sein Minn, 2020 (Ph.D.)
• Peng Xu, 2019 (Ph.D.)
• Behzad Beheshti, 2016 (Ph.D.)
• Soroosh Ghorbani, 2016 (Ph.D.)
• Nastaran Jafarpour, 2014 (Ph.D., Doina Precup, McGill, co-supervisor)
• François Lemieux, 2013 (Ph.D., Pierre-N. Robillard, co-supervisor)
• Shunkai Fu, 2010 (Ph.D.)
• Alexandre Plouznikoff, 2009 (Ph.D.)

• Jean-Charles Layoun, 2023 (M.Sc. - Amal Zouaq, co-supervisor, Poly, GIGL)
• Mikaël Perreault, 2021 (M.Sc.A.)
• Kasra Dadkhah-Hadi, 2020 (M.Sc.A.)
• Étienne Six, 2018 (M.Sc.A.)
• Antoine Lefebvre-Brossard, 2018 (M.Sc.A.)
• Émile Ducrocq, 2014 (M.Sc.A.)
• Olivier Gagnon, 2013 (M.Sc.A. - Michel Gagnon, co-supervisor)
• Rhouma Naceur, 2013 (M.Sc.A)
• Waâd Kasmi, 2011 (M.Sc.A)
• André Jodoin, 2010 (M.Sc.A.)
• Alexandre Spaeth, 2009 (M.Sc.A. - Michel Gagnon, co-supervisor)
• Alejandro Villarreal, 2009 (M.Sc.A.)
• Joël Migneault, 2008 (M.Sc.A. - Jean-Marc Robert, co-supervisor)
• Beatriz Revello, 2008 (M.Sc.A. - Michel Gagnon, supervisor)
• Shunkai Fu, 2006 (M.Sc.A.)
• Amir Masoud Oveissian, 2006 (M.Sc.A. - Michel Gagnon, supervisor)
• Lei Ma, 2006 (M.Sc.A.)
• Abdelilah Abouelfoutouh, 2006 (M.Sc.A.)
• François Lemieux, 2005 (M.Sc.A.)
• Peyman Meshkinfam, 2005 (M.Sc.A.)
• Tamer Rafla, 2005 (M.Sc.A. Pierre-N. Robillard, supervisor)
• Xiao Ming Pu, 2005 (M.Sc.A.)
• Artur Wiklik, 2004 (M.Sc.A.)

• Nourhene Chaalia, 2019 (M.Ing.)
• Corentin Lacroix, 2018 (M.Ing.)
• Safa Ghribi, 2018 (M.Ing.)
• Rashin Esmaeli, 2011 (M.Ing.)
• Wilington Cortes, 2010 (M.Ing.)
• Belkacem Derfoul, 2006 (M.Ing.)
• Rafiou Oketokoun, 2005 (M.Ing.)
• Dan Tao, 2004 (M.Ing.)

• Manuel Pellerin, 2021 (B.Sc.--Polytechnique Montreal)
• Batiste Monterrat, 2014 (Ph.D.--exchange student, INSA Lyon)
• Javier Asenjo Villamayor, 2015 (B.Sc.--Master 1--exchange student program, Madrid University)
• Hoàng Triều Trịnh, 2015 (B.Sc.--intern student program, APCS, Vietnam)

Work experience

Education

Professional activities

Administrative duties

• Treasurer, Internationl Educational Data Mining Society (2011 - 2013)
• Board member, Internationl Educational Data Mining Society (2010 - )
• Advisory Board member of the CITE (Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Emerging Technologies) (2003-2008)
• Board member of directors of Système Cognitifs Inc. (1997-1998)
• Member of the scientific committee of FDT Interface project (Quebec gov., Virtual Prototypes, Adga) (1995-1997)
• Manager, industry-university grant program (1M$/y), CRIM, (1993-1996)

Journal Editor in Chief

• Journal of Educational Data Mining (2013- - 2017)

Journal Associate Editor

• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (2014- )

Journal Editorial Board

• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (2010 - )
• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (2014 - 2018)
• Journal of Educational Data Mining (2009 - 2013, 2021 -)
• The IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin (2002 - 2010)

Journal reviewer (since 2010)

• 2023 : JDSA, JEDM, STICEF, UMUAI
• 2022 : IEEE TLT, STICEF, UMUAI
• 2021 : JAIED, IEEE TLT, UMUAI
• 2020 : JAIED, IEEE TLT, UMUAI
• 2019 : JAIED, JEDM, IEEE TLT, UMUAI
• 2018 : JEDM, IEEE TLT, UMUAI
• 2017 : JEDM, IEEE TLT, UMUAI
• 2016 : JEDM, IEEE TLT, UMUAI
• 2014 : JAIED, JEDM, IEEE Tr. SMC, IEEE Tr. LT, , THCI, UMUAI, WI
• 2013 : JEDM, IEEE Tr. LT, UMUAI, TH
• 2012 : JEDM, IEEE Tr. LT, UMUAI
• 2011 : JEDM, IEEE Tr. SMC, UMUAI, IJUFKS, CinE
• 2010 : JAIED, JEDM, IEEE Tr. SMC, UMUAI

• CinE : Computers in Education
• IJUFKS : International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
• JAIED : Artificial Intelligence in Education
• JDSA : Journal of Data Science and Analytics
• JEDM : Journal of Educational Data Mining
• JMP : Journal of Mathematical Psychology
• JLA : Journal of Learning Analytics
• THCI : Transation on Human-Computer Interaction
• Tr. LT : IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• Tr. SMC : IEEE Transactions Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• TH : Le Travail Humain
• WI : Web Intelligence

Conferences and workshops

General co-chair

• LABBEC2019, The 2nd Workhop on Learning Analytics: Building bridges between Education and the computing communities
• EDM2019, The 12th conference on Educational Data Mining
• LABBEC2018, The first Workhop on Learning Analytics: Building bridges between Education and the computing communities
• UMAP2012, The 20th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

Steering Committee

• EDM 2010-2016, Educational Data Mining, (Cordoba, Pittsburg, Eindhoven, Chania, London, Madrid)

Program Committee Co-chair

• UMAP 2017, The 25th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, Bratislava, Slovakia
• EDM 2009, Educational Data Mining, Cordoba, Spain, 1-3 July 2009
• I2LOR 2007, User Centered Knowledge Environments: from Theory to Practice, 4th Annual conference of the LORNET network of excellence, Montréal, Nov. 2007
• IHM-2006, 18ème journées sur l'ingénierie de l'interaction humain-machine, Montréal (www.ihm2006.org)

Other co-chair positions

• IHM-2009, 20ème journées sur l'ingénierie de l'interaction humain-machine, Grenoble, France (Industrial tracks--co-chair) (www.ihm2009.org)
• First International Conference on Educational Data Mining, Montréal, June 2008. (Local organisation--co-chair)
• IHM-2008, 18ème journées sur l'ingénierie de l'interaction humain-machine, Metz, France (Tutorials--co-chair) (www.ihm2008.org)
• IEEE SMC'06, Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Montreal, Oct. 2007 (Publicity--co-chair)

Program Committee Member and reviewer (since 2010)

• 2019: UMAP, EDM, EIAH, IHM, LAK
• 2018: UMAP, EDM, EIAH, IHM
• 2016: CHI, UMAP, EDM, EIAH, IHM, LAK
• 2015: CHI, UMAP, EDM, EIAH, IHM, LAK, AIED Sim Learners Workshop
• 2014: UMAP, EDM, EIAH, IHM, LAK, TICE, ITS
• 2013: UMAP, EDM, EIAH, IHM, LAK, TICE, IAT, AIED Sim Learners Workshop
• 2012: UMAP, EDM, EIAH, FactMod, LAK, ITS, TICE, IAT
• 2011: EDM, EIAH, TICE, IAT, EICS
• 2010: EDM, TICE, IAT, ITS

• AIED : Artificial Intelligence in Education
• CHI : ACM Computer Human Interaction
• EDM : Educational Data Mining
• EIAH : Environnements Informatique pour l'apprentissage humain
• EICS : ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems
• FactMod : Workshop on Factorization Models for Learner Modeling
• IAT : Intelligent Agent Technology
• IHM : Interface Humain Machine
• ITS : Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• LAK : Learning Analytics and Knowledge
• TICE : Technologies de l'information et de la communication pour l'enseignement
• UMAP : User Modeling, Adaptive, and Personalization

Funding agencies project assessments (since 2010)

• NSERC (2009 to 2022) : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
• FCI (2014, 2015) : Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation (Canada)
• EC-FP (2008, 2009, 2013) : European Commission, FP programmes (Europe)
• ARN (2012, 2014, 2016, 2022, 2023) : Agence de recherche nationale (France)
• MITACS (2015, 2016, 2019-2024) : Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (Canada)
• FQR (2013) : Fonds de recherche du Québec

Organizations

• IEDMS (International Educational Data Mining Society)
• AIED (International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society)
• AFIHM (Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine)

Selected Invited talks

• LILE workshop, WWW conference 2016, Montreal, 2016, "Student trace data analysis"
• Second workshop on simulated students, Madrid, 2015, "Synthetic data"
• Université de Lorraine, "Modélisation cognitive", 2013
• First international conference on Hybrid Learning, Hong-Kong, 2008, "Just-in-time knowledge for hybrid learning"
• Maison des technologies de formation et d'apprentissage Roland-Giguère, "Models for skills representation in learning environments", 2007
• École Centrale de Lyon, "Probabilistic Knowledge Assessment", 2003
• Quebec Chamber of commerce, 1999, "Innovation on the Web"
• Canadian Institute, "Structured training, towards personalized training material",
1997
• Stanford University, CSLI Seminars, Palo Alto, "The use of Bayesian Networks for knowledge assessment", 1996
• Information Highway Advisory Council of Canada, Ottawa, "Needs to support the development of learning", 1995